-The Hindu Use of technology helped students pursue both online, offline modes of learning Jaipur: A new initiative launched in Rajasthan with appropriate use of technology has led to access of students to both online and offline modes of learning during COVID-19, with the availability of synchronised competency-based contents, supplemented by home visits of teachers. The innovative solution has also addressed the digital divide in the desert State. The Aao Ghar Mein Seekhein...
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"May Rob Media's Independence": 2nd High Court Setback For New IT Rules -Arvind Gunasekar
-NDTV The same clauses 1 and 3 of Rule 9 of the new Information Technology rules had been put on hold on August 16 by the Bombay High Court. New Delhi: Key sections of the country's new Information Technology rules that seek to regulate digital media outlets were put on hold on Thursday by the Madras High Court, which became the second court to do so after the Bombay High Court last...
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Remote teaching and learning promoted by Edtech companies as an alternative to physical classrooms, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have a sizeable consumer base in our country. However, at the bottom of the pyramid, there are only a few takers of online education. In reality, class and caste-divide, which is more prominent in rural areas, affects access to digital learning. The majority of the school going...
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-PTI/ The Telegraph Apex court offers protection to 3 reporters of The Wire, explains that it cannot create separate avenues for scribes The Supreme Court Wednesday said it does not want freedom of press to be muzzled or stifled but it cannot create a separate avenue for journalists to approach it directly for quashing of FIRs lodged against them. The apex court stated this while hearing a plea filed by Foundation for Independent...
More »Fooling the reader: How Indian papers and magazines disguise ads as news -Tanishka Sodhi
-Newslaundry.com India Today’s ‘Focus’ and ‘Impact’ features are a case in point. If it looks like a news report, reads like a news report and is bundled with several other news reports, it must be a news report. Right? Wrong. It could as easily be an advertisement, only you wouldn’t notice if you don’t pay close attention. And that is really the idea: the ad is packaged as a report so you wouldn’t realise...
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